Browsing Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications by Title
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Maimonides on Courage
(Mohr Siebeck, 2015)This paper will specifically disclose how Maimonides crafts the specific virtue of courage and examine how he attempts to revive it as a central Jewish virtue. Maimonides describes three forms of courage: courage in its ... -
Maimonides on the Nature of Good and Evil.
(Cambridge UP, 2021-06)As is often the case with subjects in the labyrinthine work that is the Guide of the Perplexed, Maimonides’ discussions of the concepts of good and evil are scattered throughout and often interspersed among other topics. ... -
Maimonides' Disagreement with 'The Torah' in His Interpretation of Job.
(Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2002- ; Brill, 2004)Maimonides is celebrated in Jewish intellectual history both as a bold innovator and vigorous champion of rabbinic tradition. The tensions implied by this combination emerge in his reading of Job in The Guide of the ... -
Maqlû I.73-121 and Trial Procedure.
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2017)Abstract In the Akkadian anti-witchcraft ritual Maqlû, the incantation in i.73–121 exemplifies the theme of conducting adjudicatory proceedings against the witch in the divine courtroom. In particular, the patient’s ... -
“Ma‘aseh ha-Menorah” Agnon’s “Tale of the Menorah” between Buczacz and Modern Israel
(Wipf & Stock, 2021)"As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile," S. Y. Agnon declared at the 1966 Nobel Prize ceremony. ... -
The mbqr at Qumran, the episkopos in the Athenian Empire, and the Meaning of lbqrʾ in Ezra 7:14: On the Relation of Ezra's Mission to the Persian Legal Project.
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The Meaning and Significance of New Talmudic Insights
(Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009)Tracing and appreciating the relationship (in terms of both the similarities and the changes) between the approaches of leading medieval Talmudic commentators (rishonim), and those of the commentators in the early ... -
Medieval rabbinic conceptions of the messianic age: The view of the tosafists
(Magnes Press, 2001)The Tosafists, who flourished in northern France and Germany during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, devoted the bulk of their studies to a critical reading of the talmudic corpus, and to the reconciliation ... -
The Menorah: Cult, History, and Myth Exhibiting the Past and Future of Catholic-Jewish Relations
(Leiden: Brill, 2018)La Menorà: Culto, Storia E Mito, The Menorah: Worship, History and Myth was a monumental exhibition mounted by the Vatican Museums and the Jewish Museum of Rome in the Spring of 2017. Bringing together many of the most ... -
The Menorah: Cult, History, and Myth Exhibiting the Past and Future of Catholic-Jewish Relations.
(Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2018-12)La Menorà: Culto, Storia E Mito, The Menorah: Worship, History and Myth was a monumental exhibition mounted by the Vatican Museums and the Jewish Museum of Rome in the Spring of 2017. Bringing together many of the most ... -
Menorahs in color: Polychromy in Jewish visual culture of Roman antiquity.
(Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2013)In recent years, polychromy has developed as a significant area of research in the study of classical art. This essay explores the significance of this work for interpreting Jewish visual culture during Roman antiquity, ... -
“Midianite Men, Merchants” (Gen 37:28): Linguistic, Literary, and Historical Perspectives
(Vetus Testamentum, 2022)An important method of resolving contradictions in the Bible was developed by Saadia Gaon and Menasseh ben Israel based on the writings of Aristotle. It is rooted in the insight that failure to recognize linguistic ... -
Midrashic texts and methods in tosafist torah commentaries
(London: Littman Library, 2013)The relationship between biblical and talmudic studies in medieval Ashkenaz is rather complex, and a number of trenchant questions remain.1 From all that we know about the Tosafists, and as E. E. Urbach’s thorough treatment ... -
Miracles and the natural order in Nahmanides
(Harvard UP, 1983)The centrality of miracles in Nahmanides' theology cannot escape the attention of even the most casual observer. and his doctrine of the hidden miracle exercised a particularly profound and abiding influence on subsequent ... -
Modernity and Jewish Orthodoxy: Nietzsche and Soloveitchik on life-affirmation, asceticism, and repentance.
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A Monastic-Like Setting for the Study of Torah: Sefer Huqqei ha-Torah
(Princeton University Press, 2001)Sefer Huqqei ha-Torah (The Book of the Statutes of the Torah; hereafter referred to as SHH) is a detailed treatise describing a bilevel educational system. Problems in education on both the elementary and advanced levels ... -
Moses b. Nahman
(Chicago: Gitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000)A leading Spanish talmudist, Moses ben Nahman, also known as Nahmanides and by the acronym Ramban (Rabbi Moses hen Nahman), was the intellectual and communal leader of Catalan Jewry during a crucial period. His writings ... -
The mountains of Ararat, Mount Lubar and 'Har ha-Kedem
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Muqdam u-Meʿuḥar and Muqaddam wa-Muʿaḫḫar: On the History of Some Hebrew and Arabic Terms for Hysteron Proteron and Anastrophe.
(University of Chicago Press, 2007-01)The Judeo-Arabic commentaries of R. Saadia Gaon (882–942) and his successors contain a number of exegetical terms that were used earlier by quranic exegetes, for example, haqiqah wa-majaz “expressions that are literally ... -
Mysticism and asceticism in Italian rabbinic literature of the thirteenth century
(Cherub Press, Culver City, Calif., ©1996-, 2001)Several recent studies have shed new light on the halakhic writings of Italian rabbinic scholars of the thirteenth century such as Isaiah di Trani the Elder (RiD) and Zedekiah b. Abraham ha-Rafe min ha- 'Anavim, author ...
